Parenting Quotes · Page 196

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.

— Tig Notaro

My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.

— Yvonne Orji

Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.

— Josh McDowell

“If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

— Andreja Pejic

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

— Bette Davis

There are not enough angels to take care of everyone in the world, so God created Mothers. Happy Mothers Day all!

— Anonymous

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

— H. Bentley Glass

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and…

— Paul Nurse

[I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as…

— Mark Wahlberg

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents…

— Sherman Alexie

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been…

— Leah LaBelle

“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her…

— Lisa E. Dahill

I'm in this sport to change my life. I'm in this sport to change my parents' lives and the loved ones around…

— Aljamain Sterling

With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting…

— Amira Hass

No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't…

— Chelsea Manning

“When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio,…

— Dustin Lance Black

“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit…

— Rachel Marie Martin

Biggest influence is my parents. It's funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My…

— Marcus Mariota

“Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The color of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with…

— Suzanne Collins

“Education is supposed to help the child and parents: it mustn’t end up being a kind of holding cell. For this reason,…

— Naoki Higashida

On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

— Bobby Knight

Creativity and curiosity are the parents of education

— Shakeel Alam

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

— Rita Mae Brown

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

— Rodney Dangerfield

...And any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored, cause my heart is yours:)

— Taylor Swift

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

— Marquise Goodwin

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

— Simone Weil

My brother still calls me didi, which is so endearing. That's how our mother raised us.

— Kubra Sait

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

— Rick Warren

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

“They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.”

— Emma Straub

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

— Judy Carter

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

— Leah Ward Sears

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

— Annette Funicello

I am the ex who your girlfriend will stalk, who your mother will miss and who you hated to lose

— Sarah Moores

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

— Taufik Hidayat